TSC Vice-President: My Statement on Corruption Was Distorted

Vice-President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Malik Agar, said that his statement at the Civil Service Conference on corruption was distorted and used for agendas and purposes he did not intend. Agar explained that he spoke about the corruption present in any country, and that no country can eradicate it, even if it works to hold the corrupt accountable.

Agar confirmed, during a media meeting with editors-in-chief of several newspapers in Portsudan (Saturday), that he gave an example of a story that occurred in his office when he was the head of the Yambio region in South Sudan.

One of the boys who worked with him in his office tried to exploit his relationship with him as head of the region, challenging others that the president would not dismiss him from his job because the president “sees that he is a good boy and he sees that the president is a good person.”

Agar added, “I gave an example of that story at the Civil Service Conference held recently in Portsudan. I did not target a specific person, nor did I single out anyone. Rather, it was a symbolic story of one of the forms of corruption.”

He pointed out that some parties sought to settle their own scores through this symbolic story and attempted to create discord. He continued, “The country has enough problems and cannot bear any more.”